Oct 6, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  

Week: 40/ Day: 280   Today: High   70°…Low 35° Records: High   80°(1991)…Low 14°(1969) Averages: High  66°…Low 36°Wind: average:   10mph;  Gusts:  38mphToday’s average humidity:  37%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s  Historical  Highlights:

1995 - Colorado Avalanche (former Quebec Nordiques) 1st NHL game, beat Detroit

1890 - Mormon Church outlaws polygamy

1876 - American Library Association organized in Philadelphia

1857 - American Chess Association organized; 1st major US chess tournament 

           (NYC)

1781 - Americans & French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of 

           Revolutionary War

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

A nice day in Flagstaff. I didn’t do a posting yesterday as some friends invited me out to dinner and by the time I got home, I was too tired to do this. We had a good dinner at Crackle Barrel and good conversation. Nice evening for sure.

 

Our lunch yesterday was interesting. Mary went to a funeral for one of her fist students, who she had kept contact with over 40 years. She started teaching in a Black school in VA. One of his sisters called to say he had passed at 51. They told her they had postponed the funeral so she could be there. Being the only White at the funeral was certainly interesting for her. She sure must have made an impression on him. Mary was told she would ride in the family car. When she got to his house, her latest Christmas card was on the mantle. Seems every Christmas card stayed on his mantle until the next card arrived.

 

The FBI has gone on record that the evidence in the recent death of a border agent was from accidental friendly fire. This is not a final report, but certainly disturbing. I wondered why the names of the agent wounded and the agent who was there but not wounded had not been released. I guess we know the answer now…still investigating. Awaiting our Governor’s comment on this new information, since she was an early commenter on how this death was just another example of a failed US policy and another failure of the Obama administration.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

What is the rhyming answer?

Answer the following clue in two rhyming words (e.g. an obese feline is a fat cat) If only one number is given, the answer is a word featuring internal rhyme (e.g. voodoo)

For some reason the website I use for this has an error in it. I’ll start this section again when and if it returns.

Rebus:

Can you figure out what this means?

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Dedication: Guinness World Records:

Charlie D'Angelo of Clifton, New Jersey, USA, has been working as an ice-cream man non-stop for 30 years since 1979 in his Iggy's Igloo ice-cream truck. 

Ok, then?

Commercial Jingles you may remember:

Snap, Crackle, Pop

Read This Headline Carefully!!

On a taxidermist's window, "We really know our stuff."

Do you know what this word means?

What is this not so common name of a common object?

technophilia

Iconic Photographs:

Great Melodies:

Java / Al Hurt 1964  

Harper’s Index:         

Number of families receiving federal cash assistance for every 100 families with children living in poverty in 1996: 68In 2010: 27

Unusual Fact of the Day:

Colonel Sanders’ finger-lickin’ formula is locked away in a bank vault in Louisville, KY. In fact, the KFC people are so serious about keeping the ingredients under wraps that two separate companies are used to blend the spices, so neither possesses the complete recipe.

Found on You Tube: 

Top 5 Countries With The Largest Active Volcanoes In The World

Joke-of-the-day:

Joe had asked Bob to help him out with the deck after work, so Bob just went straight over to Joe's place. When they got to the door, Joe went straight to his wife, gave her a hug and told her how beautiful she was and how much he had missed her at work. When it was time for supper, he complimented his wife on her cooking, kissed her and told her how much he loved her.

Once they were working on the deck, Bob told Joe that he was surprised that he fussed so much over his wife. Joe said that he'd started this about six months ago, it had revived their marriage, and things couldn't be better. Bob thought he'd give it a go. When he got home, he gave his wife a massive hug, kissed her and told her that he loved her. His wife burst into tears.

Bob was confused and asked why she was crying. She said, "This is the worst day of my life. First, little Billy fell off his bike and twisted his ankle. Then, the washing machine broke and flooded the basement. And now, you come home drunk!"  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

FALLING ASLEEP TO MUSIC…If you want to fall asleep with the stereo on, turn the volume down to a level that would be too quiet when you are awake. In less than five minutes, that level will feel comfortable, but if you're still awake in 15 minutes you may have to turn it down again.   

Yeah, It Really Happened

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. - A group of four-legged friends tried to hang 10 -- make that 20 -- in a canine surfing contest in California. The Surf City Surf Dog event was held in Huntington Beach, Calif., Sunday with 46 competitors riding 3- to 4-foot waves, all to raise money for charity. During the event, organizers sought to make the Guinness Book of World Records by getting 20 dogs to all ride the same wave for at least five seconds, The Orange County Register reported. Despite help from their owners, only a few the dogs managed the feat. The rough surf proved too tough for many of the contestants. Heather McKenny and her pooch Sir Hollywood were among the contestants. McKenny came out of the water with a sizable scratch when Sir Hollywood got a little skittish trying to surf. Still, she said, it was worth another try again next year. "It's just a great way for people with dogs to have a good time together, and with all the support of the people who come out -- it couldn't be better," McKenny said.

Somewhat Useless Information   

• Richard Starkey began using the stage name Ringo Starr in 1958 when he was drummer for a group known as the Raving Texans, and part of the appeal was the Old West flavor of the "Ringo" nickname.

• Saturn's rings are by far the most visible, but rings also surround the other outer planets - Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune.

• When the Great Depression hit, jewelry makers did what they could to stay afloat in an era when displays of wealth were frowned upon. For engagement rings, this involved designing multifaceted settings for diamonds that made the stones appear much larger than they actually were, keeping them affordable. 

• The combined cost of the three Lord of the Rings films exceeded $300 million, and investors were wary of the risk involved. The worldwide box office take for the three films, of course, proved most pleasing to everyone involved in the project. The total was just short of $3 billion, making it the top movie trilogy of all time. 

• Of the more than 500 "active" volcanoes on Earth, three quarters of them lie in an area called the "Ring of Fire" that forms a chain around the Pacific Ocean. The area includes western North and South America, from Alaska all the way to Chile.

• In 1913, IOC founder Pierre de Coubertin designed the Olympic logo still in use today, depicting five inter-locking rings of blue, yellow, black, green, and red. The rings represent (in no particular order) the continents participating in the games: Africa, America, Asia, Australia, and Europe.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

1-7

Customer Service Week

Financial Planning Week
National Newspaper Week
Spinning & Weaving Week
Universal Children's Week

World Dairy Expo

3-10

No Salt Week
World Space Week

5-7 

Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend

National Storytelling Weekend

 Today Is                                                                      

Come and Take It Day
German-American Day commemorates 13 German Mennonite families from        Krefeld near the Rhine landed in Philadelphia in 1683Cephalopod Awareness Day (First Saturday) celebration of the most intelligent      invertebrates Ecological Debt Day (total resources consumed by humanity exceed the      capacity for the Earth to generate those resources that year)~Egypt: Armed Forces Day~Hindu – India: Dasara / Vijaya Dasami (Marks the triumph of Lord Rama over      the demon king, Ravana, or the victory of good over evil)~Ireland Ivy Day[ Lá an Eidhneáin] in memory of the prominent nationalist politician      Charles Stewart Parnell

Today’s Events through History  

2000’s

2007 - Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation

            of the globe

1900’s

1996 - Bob Dole & Pres Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate

1979 - Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House

1978 - Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person

1967 - Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funneral to mark end of hippies

1961 - JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters

1949 - Pres Harry Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)

1939 - Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem

1927 - "Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC)

1800’s

1893 - Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat

1889 - Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture

1866 - 1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000)

1700’s

 1789 - French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after 

            being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October

1500’s

 1598 - Juan de Onate will leave his base in San Juan Pueblo. He is en 

            route to "visit" the PUEBLOs to the west.

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 30’s

 Jeremy Sisto, TV actor is 38

In their 40’s

Jim Sharp, US rodeo bull rider (Las Vegas 1988) is 47

Elisabeth Shue, Wilmington, Delaware, actress (Cocktail, Adv in Babysitting) is 49

In their 50’s

 David Hidalgo, American musician (Los Lobos, Latin Playboys) is 58

In their 70’s

Britt Ekland, Sweden, actress (Wicker Man, Asylum) is 70

Remembered for being born today

Shana Alexander, NYC, journalist (60 Minutes) b. 1925

Janet Gaynor, Philadelphia, actress (Sunrise, A Star Is Born) b. 1906

Thor Heyerdahl, Norway, anthropologist/explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku) b. 1914

Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano b. 1820

Carol Lombard, Ft Wayne IN, actress (My Man Godfrey, In Name Only) b. 1908

Fred Travalena, NYC, comedian/impressionist (Buy & Cell) b. 1942

George Westinghouse, Central Bridge, New York, entrepreneur and engineer b. 1846

Helen N Willis Moody, tennis pro (8 Wimbledon titles 1927-1938) b. 1905

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Ted Bessell, director/actor (That Girl)—aneurism—1996—at 61

Bette [Ruth E] Davis, actress (All About Eve, White Mama)—1989—at 81

Dawit I [ዳዊት dāwīt], Emperor of Ethiopia—kicked by horse—1413—at 31

Nelson Riddle, American bandleader— cirrhosis—1985—at 64 

[Mohammed] Anwar al-Sadat, pres Egypt (1970-81)—assassinated—1981—at 62

Alfred Lord Tennyson, writer—1892—at 83

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Do you know what this word means?

Love of new technology (from the Greek techne = art, skill, craft)

Rebus

 Middle-aged

Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.

All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.

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